The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
WILLIAM JAMESThe power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Time itself comes in drops.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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